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For 7,775 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. Café Society
    As clarified potently by the film, most of life is spent distracting oneself from matters of the closest personal significance.
  2. Hooligan Sparrow
    The Nanfu Wang film's noble aims are mirrored in its more frustrating and conventional qualities.
  3. My King
    Maïwenn fashions a bracing film about co-dependency, capturing the erotic contours of subservience and flattery.
  4. Free to Run
    The doc's caginess is a weakness that results from an inherently nostalgic sense of reverie.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Zero Days
    Director Alex Gibney does this vital material a disservice, giving it an air of deflated pomposity.
  6. Under the Sun
    Under the Sun's overall aesthetic identifies a willingness to settle for an easy condemnation of an obviously abysmal regime, while not doing anything challenging or enlightening with all the outstanding footage collected.
  7. The Secret Life of Pets
    The film's messy pile-up of comic diversions can be exhilarating in the moment—the chaos of an id given free rein.
  8. Men Go to Battle
    It's too texturally exacting in its recreation of a transitory moment in U.S. history to register as a failure.
  9. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Much like with Neighbors 2, Mike and Dave’s obvious ace in the hole is its commitment to gender parity.
  10. Fathers and Daughters
    The film's weird reformulation of the Electra complex is nothing short of a sexist fantasy of salvation.
  11. The Mermaid
    It offers a wonderful visual reprieve from the cumbersomely mechanized aesthetic of so much contemporary fantasy.
  12. Our Little Sister
    The film's reserve softens some of its more piquant observations about tradition and mortality.
  13. Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
    The doc finds pathos in an amiable, fluid construction that chronologically charts the career (and political) ambitions of TV producer Norman Lear.
  14. Cell
    The film insufficiently connects the book's prophecy with its present-day, real-world forms of realization.
  15. The Legend of Tarzan
    The film's action sequences are a jumble of movement and cuts that have no discernible relation to the actual motion of the characters.
  16. Our Kind of Traitor
    It works as both a modern morality play for our globalized world and as an indictment of Europe's ethical bankruptcy.
  17. The Purge: Election Year
    Its greater focus on disreputable genre thrills comes at the expense of making coherent points about class inequalities, political exploitation, or man's inhumanity.
  18. The Innocents
    Anne Fontaine's film is an allegory for women's condition more generally, in times of war or peace.
  19. Carnage Park
    The film covers "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" by way of Rob Zombie, Quentin Tarantino, and Ti West.
  20. Life, Animated
    It never addresses Disney's wholly manufactured stranglehold on turning adolescent desire into a consumerist impulse.
  21. The BFG
    The film, full of such quietly inventive visual magic, is perfectly content to simply revel in the stuff dreams are made of.
  22. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Emmerich rewards our patience with an impersonally massive set piece involving the usual generic stew of mass CGI-imagined demolition. The insensitivity displayed toward human life in these sequences would be galling even by Emmerich's standards, if this pitiful albatross of corporate capitalism could work up enough energy to be offensive.
  23. Misconception
    The even-handedness of Yu's gaze throughout the first part of the film, alas, isn't sustained in the second and third chapters.
  24. The Shallows
    What makes the film churn so forcefully for so long is Jaume Collet-Serra's visual acrobatics.
  25. Free State of Jones
    After its bracing opening, the film begins to indulge the worst impulses of well-meaning liberal cinema.
  26. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    It infuses an outdoorsy survival tale and a coming-of-age story of friendship with Taika Waititi's penchant for distaff flakiness.
  27. Swiss Army Man
    Even as it invites snarky ridicule, the film dares you to buy into its singular earnestness.
  28. Wiener-Dog
    The film's back half nearly goes completely astray with two segments featuring unimaginative characterizations and tepid, mean-spirited scenarios.
  29. Nuts!
    Throughout, director Penny Lane strings together telling incidents and anecdotes with a light touch.
  30. Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
    It presents a captivating portrait of one of the era's greatest defenders of artistic freedom and a true American original.
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